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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike Margolis, post: 3347053, member: 88401&quot;]from wikipedia on the &quot;Cithara&quot; says the original Lyre had two strings, the Ionians show this clearly in many diobols. Joe from Forum must have researched it up.</p><p>&quot;The kithara was a professional version of the two-stringed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyre" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyre" rel="nofollow">lyre</a>. As opposed to the simpler lyre, which was a folk-instrument, the kithara was primarily used by professional musicians, called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitharode" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitharode" rel="nofollow">kitharodes</a>. The kithara&#039;s origins are likely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia" rel="nofollow">Anatolian</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cithara#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMaasSnyder1989185-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cithara#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMaasSnyder1989185-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbiton" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbiton" rel="nofollow">barbiton</a> was a bass version of the kithara<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cithara#cite_note-West-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cithara#cite_note-West-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> popular in the eastern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_Sea" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_Sea" rel="nofollow">Aegean</a>and ancient <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia" rel="nofollow">Anatolia</a>.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cithara" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cithara" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cithara</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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